The month of mid-September to mid-October may only be rivaled by the month of March as the greatest 30 day period in sports. March Madness is unbelievable, but folks, we have postseason madness now. It is the last week of the baseball regular season and National League teams are battling it out for the wild card. Combine baseball postseason craziness with the NFL, college football and NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Championship Series and the sports fan has a permanent seat location in front of their television, or in front of The Sporting Dudes to break everything down.
The American League teams are set with just home-field advantage and series matchups to be decided. If the season were to end today the Yankees would be traveling to Cleveland to face the Indians and the Los Angeles-Anaheim-California Angels would play the Boston Red Sox. The American League is actually very simple when you compare it to its National League counterparts. This is taken from an article by Jayson Stark of ESPN about the National League postseason race: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3038686
Personally I would love to see a five-way tie. Every team is so even in talent that Major League Baseball is challenging the NFL is degree of parity.
Let the postseason madness continue. Who knows, maybe the Colorado Rockies can become baseball’s version of George Mason. That is, if they can emerge out of the five team pile-up in the standings.
-MVP
September 27, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Oh definitely… especially with teams like the Patriots that are just so stacked that it’s ridiculous…
- KW